"But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy."

“What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.”

“No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.”

“The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.”

“I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.”

“And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.”

“I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.”

Source : "I didn't know I was writing a novel". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2005.

“I'm going to imprint myself on everything in this world.”

Source : "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

“Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.”

Source : "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 2, 2000.